At 83 metres high, the Montmorency Falls in Quebec are 30 metres higher than Niagara Falls. Apparently there are staircases that allow visitors to observe the falls from different vantage points... Not our vantage point though! The falls look absolutely…

Remember our giant piece of Scotch Tape holding Canada together? Well our ever-helpful readers have since turned up several more pieces of this gargantuan sticky-tape... Firstly we have this enormous length of tape, which is actually holding Ghana and Ivory…

Built into the side of Capital Hill, Canberra is Australia's Parliament house. During construction more that 100,000 truckloads of earth was moved, although much of it was put back on top of many of the offices. In the centre of…

Google have added yet more features to Google Maps :). There is now a new 'Hybrid' button on the maps interface that gives you the satellite imagery with the roads and place names overlaid. Pretty neat! Of course, as we…

According to submitter "Roberto" this house is owned by a local butcher who had his swimming pool built in the shape of his company's logo, a Scimitar sword. I checked our submissions database and there were no other custom-made pools…

Back in 1977, Charles and Ray Eames made a short movie entitled 'Powers of Ten', which Wikipedia describes like this: It begins with a couple picnicking in a park; the view is that of one meter across. The viewpoint then…